Vortex

“All our wisdom is stored in the trees.”
― Santosh Kalwar

PHOTO FRIDAY

THE CURRENT CHALLENGE

Fri Jun 27, 2014

This week’s challenge:

‘Green’.

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Nova

Awakening of a dream...

“Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”

“The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history.”

“May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

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Sphinx

Isn’t life more than that? Doesn’t existence itself rise above all the things that

happen—the goods, the bads, the rights, the wrongs, the judgments? Isn’t it a

kindness to be here? Isn’t this a special moment—this moment called being alive?

How aware am I of it? How much do I recognize it?

What am I concerned about today? Am I the least bit concerned about something

that is finer than the finest hair—something that cannot be measured in width,

height, or weight and that is the only difference between me and that headstone?

Do you know what it is? It’s the breath that comes in and out of me.

You cannot take a picture of it. You cannot paint it. You cannot make a statue of it.

You cannot give it, buy it, trade it, or sell it. And it makes all the difference between

you and your headstone. Because breath comes, you’re intelligent. Because it comes,

you are Mr. So-and-So, Mrs. So-and-So, Miss So-and-So, Dr. So-and-So, Captain

So-and-So, Professor So-and-So. And thanks to this gift of breath, you have the

capability to understand, to question, to reason, to observe, and to learn.

—Prem Rawat

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Working Child

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Carl Sagan

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